Fedora Asahi Remix 41 is out now bringing the most polished version of Linux for Apple Silicon Macs, along with support for AAA gaming. It's developed in collaboration between the Fedora Project and Asahi Linux.
As announced on the Fedora blog it's built upon Fedora 41 with the KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment as their flagship (best supported), but GNOME 47 is also an option for those that want it. The exciting thing about this release is the much improved gaming experience!
Developer Alyssa Rosenzweig from the Asahi team blogged about the big gaming improvements that I covered here on GamingOnLinux back in October, and this release brings it all together along with the new and improved conformant Vulkan 1.4 driver. Writing about the graphics driver upgrade developer Rosenzweig mentioned:
Releasing a conformant driver reflects our commitment to graphics standards and software freedom. Asahi Linux is also compatible with OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 3.0, all conformant to the relevant specifications. For that matter, ours are the only conformant drivers on Apple hardware for any graphics standard.
Thanks to the likes of FEX and various other projects, you can run Steam games directly.
Installing it on an Apple Silicon Mac is surprisingly easy too, you just need access to a terminal and then run a simple command and it will walk you through it.
Pictured - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Wonderful to see such insanely impressive progress for running Linux on modern Apple Silicon hardware.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
StalePopcorn 3 hours ago
da_habakuk 29 minutes ago
Quoting: da_habakukim not sure how this will bring AAA gaming to linux on arm. most games are x86 only - what cpu translation is used to achieve this goal? opengl & vulkan is the easier part of the puzzle i think.... maybe im missing something?It uses a mixture of things like FEX to run the games on Arm. So yeah, you're missing plenty :)
Quoting: StellaIn my opinion, Apple can never be be the future of gaming thanks to its 'walled garden' approach and because they change CPU architecture about as often as I change clothes. Many games that used to work don't any more because they were built for Intel Macs, and before that, PowerPCA walled garden is nothing to do with it, Steam supports Mac after all. Their lower user share is the biggest part of it, same reason as Linux.
As for changing CPU architecture, they moved to Intel starting in 2006, that's around 18 years ago. That's a long time.
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